Re: OT New home wall thickness

Posted by Kent on June 11, 2004 at 20:24:45 from (12.214.34.211):

In Reply to: OT New home wall thickness posted by Kent on June 10, 2004 at 18:09:16:

I never in my dreams did I imagine I would get this much help on a project that means so much to me and my family. Once again everyone has come through for me on this site. I thank you for all the good ideas and suggestions. I will go with the 6" wall on 16" centers and the trusses on 16" centers. It seems like I have seen some roof and ceiling sag when the trusses are on 24" centers. Some spoke of moisture problems with cellulose, can someone explain further to eliminate this problem? Applegate and Nu Wool say if I remember correctly not to use a vapor barrier. I live in a climate that has both cold and very hot and high humidity. In the summer it gets 100+ with humidity in the high 90's. Winter has been only getting down into the teens and maybe occasionally below 0. We have decided to eliminate some windows on the north and west when there are 2 windows hooked together like 29x53&29x53 we will eliminate one of them. I am putting this over a basement that cost me $24,659 and it is planned as a finished basement, but we may just frame a load bearing wall and hold off a bit to save the @$14,000 in materials to finish it out. I have chosen a heat pump that is a SEER 14 with a variable speed fan to make the air maintain @90 degrees even on the coldest days in my area. It will be all electric, I dont have access to natural gas and propane is going through the roof. I thought of going with the spray foam insulation but got afraid of it for some odd reason, I guess it is not common YET. I have a dealership that installs it @3 miles from the house. I planned on using the Advantec sub floor and have all that I can water sealed or painted due to things going slow and I know it will rain!! Thanks Again for the help, Kent

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